释义 |
mercury-vapor lamp in American English (ˈmɜrkjʊriˈveɪpər; ˈmɜrkəriˈveɪpər) US a discharge lamp containing mercury vapor mercury-vapor lamp in American English (ˈmɜːrkjəriˌveipər) nounElectricity a lamp producing a light with a high actinic and ultraviolet content by means of an electric arc in mercury vapor Word origin [1900–05 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, cathode-ray tube, decompression, geopolitics |